News Briefs 27-08-2005

The ‘net overflows with news of the discovery of a $10 billion treasure on Robinson Crusoe island (more at New Scientist). Note that most stories have skirted around the fact that this treasure has been ‘located’, not ‘found’…in other words, someone thinks they’ve found the thing they were looking for, but haven’t dug it up yet. See here for a saner view.

Hurricane Katrina may have freed military-trained dolphins carrying toxic dart guns, to be used for attack-and-kill missions against divers.

Australian ‘hobbit’ discoverers under fire as skeptics claim the alleged new species was just a diseased human.

Perhaps they should try some weird sex instead. Investigation into giant squids shows they may accidentally inseminate themselves during violent sex…hey, manipulating tentacles and a penis that big is always going to have its dangers!

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Left-handed women more likely to get breast cancerThis is one of those bizarre experiments that only scientists think of,and I presume it will frighten a lot of left-handed women into thinking they are now likely to develop breast cancer.
I have a few women friends who have had breast cancer and none is left-handed.
I would be interested in the details of this investigation.I have heard before that left-handed people are likely to die earlier than right-handed people but I believed it was due to accidents in a right-handed world.
In my opinion the left-handed people I have known are very adept with coping with their other-handedness.